"Raw numbers are irrelevant. If you have 10 people and all of them are Mexican, then they'll stay Mexican. If 1 out of 20 are Mexican, they *can* be assimilated, and that's about the percentage we've got."
If you really believe this, you are quite possibly the most uninformed FReeper I have ever read, vis a vis immigration. What the legal and illegal mexicans are ACTUALLY doing in California is take over one city at a time, change all the signs to spanish, and take over all the small businesses....hell they even run out the major supermarket chains, and turn them into Mexican Mega Markets. There is nothing "american" about these cities once they have taken them over. We are not talking about little villages here either. Oxnard, Ca. is close to 200,000 population, and it is being swallowed. I estimate the illegal population at over 40,000 there. The fact is that over the last 10 years, illegals have gone from pleasant to surly, and they are NOT assimulating in any way, shape or means. At least not in California, and California has over 10 % of the USA population. If you want the rest of America to go the way of California, just keep talking the way you are. It will happen in just one generation. I think you mean well, but you are horribly misguided if you think we need one more guestworker!
Narb is "somebody"
why he chooses to post on a conservative forum beats me....proselytizing the Euro view..his own
That is a fact.